Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Tiankeng

The two walked into the east alleyway.The laneway is about one foot wide and about two feet high.After walking for a certain distance, no mechanism was found, and the two felt at ease.After walking a few more steps, a dark mass suddenly appeared on the side of the alleyway in front of the wall. Lian Xing and Da Kui hurriedly stopped and looked intently, only to see that the dark mass turned out to be a man in black clothes, with dense arrows stuck in his body, like a hedgehog, as if he had been dead for a long time .On the ground next to him, countless arrow branches were scattered. Lian Xing and Da Kui looked at each other.

Lian Xing said slowly: "It seems that someone came to the tomb of King Jin one step ahead of us." Da Kui chuckled and said, "Well, someone is the pioneer for us." Walking up to the corpse, Da Kui held the waist of the corpse with a single knife, and the corpse turned over and lay on the ground on its back.The face of the corpse was purple-black, apparently died of poisoning, and a trace of dried blood remained at the corner of the mouth. Lian Xing only felt that this person was very familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere. Da Kui waved casually in front of the corpse, and something was revealed from the neck of the corpse.

When Lian Xing and Da Kui saw that thing, they couldn't help blurting out: "Touch the golden talisman?" Da Kui carefully took out the extremely precious gold-touching talisman from the neck of the corpse.The two of them went to Huo Zhezi to have a look, and sure enough, this gold-touching talisman was genuine, and it was exactly the keepsake worn by the disciples of the gold-touching school. Lian Xing looked at the gold-touching talisman, then at the purple-black face of the corpse, his heart suddenly moved, and he immediately thought of a person—this person was Jing Tianhong, the fifth disciple of the gold-touching school.

Lian Xing immediately had a cloud of suspicion in his mind—why did Jing Tianhong come here?Lian Xing remembered that the first time he saw Jing Tianhong was in the Skull Cave of Ghost Face Mountain. Later, Jing Tianhong was rescued by the ghost mother-in-law. At this moment, Hong has turned into a skeleton, lying here.Lian Xing inevitably felt a little sad in his heart. Lian Xing remembered that King Mojin, the head of the Mojin Sect, had been kind to him, and Jing Tianhong couldn't be allowed to expose his body in this ancient tomb at this moment.Putting on the silk gloves, he slowly pulled out the arrows that shot into Jing Tianhong's body, and put them on the ground one by one.

Da Kui counted them, and there were as many as a hundred arrows, he couldn't help but secretly startled, couldn't help but look up, trying to see some clues from the top of the alleyway.What kind of mechanism actually shoots such a powerful arrow? However, after searching for a long time, Da Kui did not see where the organ was located.Looking back, he saw that Lian Xing had already pulled out the arrows from Jing Tianhong's body, and laid Jing Tianhong's body flat on the ground. As soon as Lian Xing put Jing Tianhong's body down, a black bead rolled out of Jing Tianhong's pocket.

Lian Xing was stunned, picked up the bead, couldn't help being overjoyed, hurriedly greeted Da Kui, and said: "Da Kui, look, here is another Seven Yin Bead!" Da Kui hurried over, seeing this dark bead, he was very excited: "It seems that there is another big fight waiting for us to pour." Lian Xing nodded, took out the key to unlock the Qiyin Bead from his pocket, aimed the strange-shaped key at the small hole on the Qiyin Bead, and gently poked it in.He only heard the sound of "Ding" from the Qiyin Pearl, and the beads opened in response to his hand. Lian Xing and Da Kui stared at it, and there was a roll of pale yellow silk cloth inside the Seven Yin Bead.

Lian Xing stretched out his hand and slowly opened the roll of silk cloth, only to see a picture impressively drawn on the silk cloth.On the picture is a deep valley, bubbling heat from the gurgling upwards. Lian Xing and Da Kui were stunned, thinking: What kind of place is this? Lian Xing frowned, thought for a while, then suddenly remembered a place, couldn't help but blurted out: "This seems to be a sinkhole." Da Kuiqi said: "What is the tiankeng? Where is it?" Lian Xing said in a deep voice: "The tiankeng is in the territory of Sichuan. It is in the shape of a huge shaft. It is very deep and wide. No one has ever gone down."

Da Kui pointed to the picture on the silk cloth and said, "Could it be that what is painted on this picture is the tiankeng?" Lian Xing nodded and said, "It must be so." Da Kui chuckled: "Let's finish the bucket and then go to the Tiankeng. Do you think it's okay?" Lian Xing felt sad, and thought: Once this matter is over, I will go to the Lingguan Qiu to avenge my parents, how can I have time to go to the Tiankeng to explore the secrets? Lian Xing didn't want Da Kui to be as depressed as himself, so he forced a smile and said, "Okay, after finishing this fight, let's go to the Tiankeng to have a look when we have time."

Lian Xing looked at Jing Tianhong's corpse, and said: "Let's go inside and have a look, and when we come out, take this corpse out for a proper burial." Da Kui nodded.The two continued to walk along the alleyway, turned a corner, and there was a tomb in front of them. This tomb was very grand and spacious, and there was a huge sarcophagus in the center. Da Kui and Lian Xing were stunned, could this be the tomb of Jin Wang Shi Jingtang?Why is it so simple? Looking up, there are two stone figurines in front of the sarcophagus.One stands still, but the other seems to be overthrown to the ground.The lid of the sarcophagus seemed to have been lifted, and it was slanted to cover the sarcophagus, revealing a dark corner of the sarcophagus, and a rotten breath slowly gushed out from the sarcophagus.

Da Kui and Lian Xing secretly said "not good", Jin Wang Shi Jingtang's tomb seems to have been broken into.The two looked around, and sure enough, there was a hole about two feet wide in the northeast corner of the tomb, and there was a rope hanging from the hole. The four walls of the tomb are also densely packed with arrow branches. It seems that someone triggered the arrow branches. After the mechanism was fired, the tomb robbers descended from the middle of the hole in the northeast corner. Da Kui groaned secretly in his heart, thinking: It seems that he and Lian Xing are going to return empty-handed again this trip.

The two walked quickly to the sarcophagus, shook the torch, and looked through the exposed half-foot-wide gap, only to see that there was nothing in the sarcophagus except for a corpse in a yellow robe.And the corpse has also been turned to one side, and the whole body is tightly attached to the side of the sarcophagus. Da Kui cursed angrily: "His grandma, we are still a step late." Lian Xing's eyes flickered, he walked around the tomb, nodded, and said: "It seems that this tomb is indeed undoubtedly owned by King Jin Shi Jingtang. It's just that King Jin only has one generation, and Shi Jingtang has been in charge of it for seven years. The short-lived emperor, that's why this emperor's mausoleum was built in such a simple and shabby way." Da Kui still didn't give up, he stretched out his hand and pushed the lid of the sarcophagus to the outside, and looked inside. Suddenly Da Kui exclaimed, and hurriedly greeted Lian Xing, "Lian Xing, what do you think this is?" Lian Xing heard Da Kui's call, hurried over, looked up into the sarcophagus, and was stunned.In the sarcophagus, there was a white silk ribbon lying there quietly at the foot of the corpse. Lian Xing's heart was pounding, this white ribbon was exactly the same as the one worn by Xiaolongnv - could it be that Xiaolongnv and his grandfather came here in the same year?Was the thing in the sarcophagus taken away by Long Henian? Lian Xing stretched out his hand and picked up the white ribbon.As soon as Lian Xing picked up the white ribbon, his eyes were immediately attracted by the white ribbon.It turned out that there were two words written with a brush in the middle of the white ribbon. Da Kui stood beside him, and when he saw those two words, he couldn't help blurting out: "Tiankeng?" Da Kui recognized these two characters, and they were exactly the characters for "Tiankeng". Da Kui was stunned for a moment, and thought to himself: I and Lian Xing just picked up a seven-yin bead, and the picture of Kuixing kicking and fighting in the seven-yin bead is painted on the mysterious tiankeng. I can't think of the white ribbon left by the little dragon girl There is also the word "Tiankeng" on the map. Is there such a coincidence in the world? Da Kui turned his head full of doubts, and asked Lian Xing, "Lian Xing, do you think Miss Long left this white ribbon just for you? Why did she do that?" Lian Xing pondered for a moment, then slowly said: "This is not left by Xiaolongnv." Da Kuiqi said: "This is obviously the ribbon of Miss Long, who else could it be?" Lian Xing said: "It's her grandfather who divides Qiu Lingguan into the Year of the Dragon and Crane!" Da Kui was even more surprised, and said: "The Year of the Dragon and Crane? Why did he keep this white ribbon? Could it be that he has other plans?" Lian Xing nodded and said, "You're right. Long Henian must have ulterior motives. Maybe he wants to lure us into the Tiankeng, and then catch us all in one go." Da Kui slapped the wall of the tomb with his palm. This slap was precise and ruthless, and the wall was shaken. The dust on the top of the tomb fell down. Da Kui said angrily: "Why is this old boy so vicious?" Lian Xing let out a hesitation and fell silent. Lian Xing expected that this white ribbon was left by Fenqiu Lingguan Long Henian.Long Henian's trip to the south this time was to take out a shocking treasure from the tiankeng, and when he walked near the mausoleum of King Jin, he accidentally found Jing Tianhong, so he led the little dragon girl to follow behind quietly. Jing Tianhong used the cutting formula to enter obliquely, and came to the Jin King's Mausoleum, but unexpectedly, the Tianji Divine Crossbow in the Jin King's Mausoleum fired ten thousand arrows and was shot to death in the alleyway. Long Henian then avoided the alleyway, and made a robbery hole from the earth-sealed side of the Jin King's Mausoleum, and entered directly into the Jin King's Mausoleum. Not a single thing is kept, everything is stolen.When he was about to leave, his heart moved suddenly, and he stretched out his hand and quietly took off a white ribbon of Xiaolongnu, and asked Xiaolongnu to wait on it first, while he took out a pen and ink from his luggage and wrote the word "Tiankeng" on it. Long Henian knew that this was the only way for Lian Xing and his party to follow him. If Lian Xing entered the tomb by accident, he would definitely find the white ribbon.In order to avenge his parents, Lian Xing will track him to the Tiankeng, and then he will be able to eradicate Lian Xing and avoid future troubles forever. Lian Xing naturally didn't know all this. Da Kui looked at the white ribbon and said slowly, "Then shall we go to the Tiankeng?" Lian Xing nodded, and said: "Of course we will. Even if this old thief escapes to the ends of the earth, we have to find him. What's more, this old thief just fled to the sinkhole." After a pause, Lian Xing said again : "This old thief left us a white silk ribbon to point us to the Tiankeng, which saves us from looking around. It's not a bad thing." Big Kui nodded and said, "Hehe, this old thief is self-defeating, maybe the Tiankeng is his burial place." Lian Xing put the white ribbon into his arms carefully, it belonged to Xiao Longnu after all.Thinking of Xiaolongnv, Lian Xing couldn't help another pain in his heart.Xiaolongnv's grandfather, Qiu Lingguan Long Henian, killed her parents, and she and Long Henian had formed a bloody feud, and the situation was already irreconcilable. Lian Xing felt sour, thinking that he would never be able to join hands with the one he loved, the sadness in his heart couldn't be increased, so he hurriedly turned his head and said to Da Kui: "Da Kui, let's go." When Da Kui saw Lian Xing's face darken instantly, he knew that Lian Xing was thinking of the little dragon girl, so he pretended not to know, turned around and walked out. Lian Xing followed Da Kui, and the two walked out slowly along the alleyway they came in.When he came to Jing Tianhong's corpse, Lian Xing greeted Da Kui, and the two carried Jing Tianhong, step by step from the alleyway back to the entrance of the cave. As soon as Lian Xing showed his head, Jackson, "Third Brother" and the burly man who were waiting outside all cheered in unison, and the three of them immediately gathered around and picked up the corpses of Lian Xing, Da Kui and Jing Tianhong three times. Pulled up. Lian Xing saw that these corpse chasers had been rescued, and they were all standing by the side waiting. Lian Xing called Da Kui and Jackson to carry Jing Tianhong's body outside, found a high hill, dug a hole, and buried Jing Tianhong. Inside the abandoned house, Lian Xing directed everyone to dig up the blood orange tree and expose the trunk to the sun.Seeing the purple-black pus-blood-like juice flowing out from the severed roots of the blood citrus, everyone felt sick for a while, and couldn't help but want to vomit it out.